Nigerian paralympic gold medalist, Ndidi is dead
Ndidi Nwosu, an ace Nigerian powerlifter and gold medalist
at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio De Janeiro is dead.
Former President of the Nigeria Powerlifting Federation,
Queen Uboh confirmed the death of the Paralymic games star. Ndidi who also won
gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, died in Owerri Imo state on
March 1, 2020, following complications arising from a lung infection.
Ms Uboh disclosed that the husband of the late powerlifter,
Ikechukwu Nwosu called her to convey the sad news of his wife's demise.
She said;
“Ndidi sustained an injury from the 2018 Commonwealth Games
in Australia. She was a heavyweight powerlifter. I had actually assisted by
paying for two of the surgeries she had in Owerri but after the surgery, she
was never the same again.
“She had been off and on in the hospital and that was why
she couldn’t take part in this last World Cup.
“Even before she died, she appeared to me in the dream. She
told me not to leave her family and that I was still her mummy despite not
being the Powerlifting President anymore. So when the husband called me to
inform me of her passing, I knew already because she had appeared to me in the
dream.
"I sent some money to Nwosu to start a petty business
but she couldn’t manage it with her poor health.
“She had called me to say she couldn’t sustain the business
because she couldn’t move about anymore and moreover, she was using the money
to buy drugs.
“She was a very quiet powerlifter and that’s why many people
really didn’t know her. Ndidi became a professional powerlifter in 2008 and won
gold in the Rio Paralympic Games in 2016 and also at the 2018 Commonwealth
Games It was at the Commonwealth Games that she sustained an injury which
affected her spine.”
In a tribute to late Ndidi, the Minister of Youths and
Sports Sunday Dare praised the podium performances of the powerlifter “which
etched and ranked the name of her fatherland- Nigeria- amongst the countries
parading great para powerlifters on the international scene.”
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